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OCR: CONSTELLATIONS SINCE ANCIENT TIMES, people have CYGNUS (THE SWAN) seen imaginary shapes among Cygnus is a bright groups of stars in the night sky. Using northern constellation lines, they have joined the stars in these that lies along the Milky Way. groups together to form figures called constellations. Today, an internationally agreed system divides the sky around the Earth into 88 areas, each containing a constellation. Each of the constellation patterns is meant to represent a creature or object, and a number of them are named for mythological figures. From STARS IN the Earth, stars in a constellation appear CYGNUS to be near each other, but in reality they CONSTELLATION lie at different distances from us. OF CYGNUS SEE THE CELESTIAL APPARENT INSIDE A KEY THE NEXT ALSO SPHERE MAGNITUDE ...